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ABOUT ROMANIAN
Romanian, also spelled Rumanian, is the national language of Romania. Romanian is the only Romance language to have developed in Eastern Europe. For this reason it is sometimes classified as Balkan Romance. It shares much of its vocabulary with the other Romance languages, chiefly French and Italian, followed by Sardinian, Catalan, Portuguese, Rhaeto Romance, and Spanish. Romanian has also borrowed heavily from the Slavic languages and from Greek, Turkish, Hungarian, and German. It descended from the Latin introduced by the Roman Emperor Trajan when he conquered the region in the second century A.D. However, relatively few words from Latin remain in the modern Romanian language.

Outside of Romania, Romanian is also spoken in Moldavia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, and immigrant communities throughout Europe, Canada, Australia, and the U.S.

Romanian is written with a Roman alphabet that was instituted in 1859. Prior to that it was written in a Cyrillic alphabet introduced into Romanian via Old Church Slavonic, the language used for religious texts. The Roman alphabet now used in Romanian employs diacritics over certain vowels.

The Romanian definite article is suffixed to the noun (rege = king; regale = the king). Three grammatical genders — masculine, feminine, and irregular (masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural) — are distinguished. Romanian has three diphthongs and seven vowels, including the unstressed ă (vară = summer) and the guttural î (gît = neck). Two special consonants are the ş, pronounced sh (şase = six), and the ţ, pronounced ts (preţ = price). Consonant clusters occur at the beginning of syllables, which is unusual in Romance languages. Stress can occur on any syllable. Varying the stressed syllable can change the meaning of a word.